Meaning and Controversy within Chinese Ancestor Religion

• Main Author: Batairwa Kubuya, Paulin (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Asian Christianity in the Diaspora
• Subjects: Religions.; Ethnology-Asia.; China-History.; Comparative Religion.; Asian Culture.; History of China.

Chinese practices related to ancestors have long been the subject of conflicting interpretations. These practices are rooted in the lived experience of practitioners, and therefore need be considered as embodied expressions of the quest for existential meaning. For practitioners, the achievement of...

Table of Contents:

• CH 1 Introduction: Are Ancestors a Problem?
• CH 2 The Hermeneutic Problem within Ancestor Related Practices
• CH 3 The Conflict of Interpretation of Chinese Ancestor Rites
• CH 4 "Our " Perspective: Indigenous Explanation of Ancestor Rites
• CH 5 Existential Practical Hermeneutic of Ancestor Religion
• CH 6 Conclusion. .